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When It’s Time To Jump Off A Political Bandwagon

There is a classic anecdote intended to halt someone from taking a likely wrong path. The shorter version is “if you knew there was just a tiny bit of dog excrement in your food, would you still eat it?”

This can apply perfectly to embracing an ideology, political doctrine, religion or getting behind anything enjoying massive popular support.

It’s rather difficult, when the stakes are purported to be very high internationally, not to be mentally drawn, to some extent, into a political struggle from overseas (unless you isolate yourself from any type of media). And realistically, many people who see themselves as apolitical (independent thinkers) have seen the pros of the US administration change in terms of loosening the grip of cultural Marxism, potentially with international ripples.

The left’s arguments and demonstrations have often been inept; incoherent; it was difficult to take them seriously when becoming hysterical about “pussy remarks” and parading as giant vulvae (with their heads as the urethrae I suppose).

As enthusiasm rose, the right-leaning alternative media started producing more and more pro-Trump material, which after the election has become 99,99% uncritical on very popular channels. By now it basically sounds like political propaganda, although most likely it is produced in earnest, as part of an ideological fight against the radical left.

Is uncritical enthusiasm ever a good omen? Probably not.

Among Hollywood’s snobbery, frequent violence from the left and theatrical demonstrations against “sexism”, one issue was overlooked by supportive channels: the reality of what is in store for that country’s roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants, many of whom have been there for years and have built their lives and families there. Whilst routing for an end to the PC culture, it was easy for any outsider to believe deportation would be focused on violent criminals, such as murderers, rapists or drug dealers – reality proves very different.

The cold fact is that a “deportation force” will be organised to hunt all these people down; I needn’t say what that is reminiscent of, to avoid sounding like a leftist. They will target everyone, in their homes, in the street, at their workplace. They will show up at the door, handcuff people in front of their kids, drive them away and all contact will be cut, just like that. No consideration to that person’s present eligibility to stay will be given.

And spokespersons for said administration refer to this as a fair and humane method, even though the reality of it is brutal and often makes no sense in terms of what the state would gain.

Someone can even prove to have built a business, employed others, supported a large family for years , paid taxes and still be thrown out with nothing but the clothes on their back and no right to any of their possessions, or even a chance to see their family before being flown back to a country they had left decades before, prone to homelessness and despair. That is worse treatment than serial killers get. And when the breadwinner of the family is thrown out, with no consideration for those left behind, that family likely ends up on welfare. What sense does this even make? Who benefits from this?

These people are part of their society, of their communities. And they will just disappear, one by one, overnight. Seriously, what does this sound like?

Nobody seems immune to the snare of a promised political change and as time goes by, polarisation becomes more evident, even if the starting point was a neutral one. This change has generated a massive wave of hope, as a middle-finger shown to the leftist establishment. Yet it will come with needless destruction of lives, on a mass scale.

And while this is happening, the right-leaning alternative media will most likely look the other way and sneer at SJW meltdowns over inconsequential matters. And will most likely keep arguing that the Trump administration is the way to the future, an example to follow.

Eerily enough, mass deportation has seldom been discussed during the campaign and is seldom discussed now. The focus for many alternative channels with a large following seems to be defending Trump’s image at all cost, down to minutiae such as what is tweeted about him. Strengthening the border is often described as blocking new immigration, not throwing out all those who already live there and have for years, decades even. That wouldn’t be too palatable for the average reader or listener, who can instead easily be led to think, through this communal omission, that nothing unreasonable is involved.

If there’s nothing concrete anyone outside the US can do about it, perhaps no longer applauding it would be a good option. Perhaps being honest about it would be a start.

4 thoughts on “When It’s Time To Jump Off A Political Bandwagon”

White Americans who are struggling financially don’t care about immigration and deportation of any type, or environmental concerns. They have been afforded all of the respect and dignity of wraiths for decades and now its payback time. Sad but true. The U.S. disproportionately rewards the successful and punishes everybody else. The abused and forgotten are in a pre-revolutionary mood right now and after driving through some of the ‘sacrifice zones’, a few years back. it became more understandable to me.

It is also very much like pre-war Germany. The Germans were so beaten down, they became less than human towards other races and were out for scapegoats.

This is just the beginning. People have to prepare for what is coming, if not practically, then just mentally.

Read Steve Bannon\’s comments about destroying the current system. That\’s how bad it could get. I remember reading something once about rage having an almost etheric component that carries the angry along in a wave they cannot control. They participate in it and summon it, in a synergistic way — if that makes any sense.

There is no turning back. The gates of Hell have been opened and fascism is taking over. This isn\’t sloganeering. It is actually happening. Europe will also succumb, I feel.

I see this in the European coverage of the “migrant crisis” as well. It’s all one sided. The left sweeps all issues under the carpet, refusing to deal with them, whilst the right just demonises an entire mass of people indiscriminately. It’s as if the left were working for the right in this hyping up of matters. It’s like they’re giving them material against all logic. Of course the issues are very serious; I’m just afraid that the day will come when people will start blindly attacking each other in the street and there will be many innocent victims as there are in any such conflict. Then there is a real chance of far-right governments getting to power all over Europe, all using this as a pretext and the same type of rhetoric. They wouldn’t have managed so easily under normal circumstances. That’s why it looks engineered in so many ways.